Cable-hanger.



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UNITED STATES Patented May 10, 1904.

FRANK E. WVEY, OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA.

CABLE-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,787, dated May 10, 1904.

Application filed May 16, 1903. Serial No. 157,431. (No model.)

To all w/wm it may concern:

Be it known thatI, FRANK E.WEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wheeling, in the county of Ohio and State of lVest Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cable-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in cablehangers; and the objects of the invention are to provide a hanger of this character which will be adapted to clamp a cable of any size to a carrier or span-wire, which will grip the cable firmly and not slide thereon, but which will slide on the span-wire, and which will bind the cable closely to the span-wire, thus presenting a neat appearance.

My invention consists of a hanger formed of one piece of flexible metal and bent, as hereinafter described, particularly pointed out in the claims, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the practical application of my device. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the hanger only partially bent into clamping position. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, parts being broken away to show the slots formed in the hanger. Fig. 4.- is a perspective view showing the hanger as placed on the market.

In the drawings, A represents a sheet of flexible metal which in its blank form consists of a rectangular body having a reduced tongue portion B integral with and extending from one end of the body portion. The body portion has an opening C formed centrally therein, and adjacent the end opposite the tongue has a transverse slot D, the open-' ing and slot being of a width suflicient to receive the tongue. Intermediate the opening and slot and adjacent the slot D the body portion is transversely curved outwardly and inwardly upon itself, as at E.

In the application of my device to a cable the body portion and tongue are bent around the cable, the free end of the tongue being passed through the opening C, the hanger assuming the position shown in Fig. 2. The

curved portion E is then fitted over the spanwire, and the tongue is drawn through the opening (1 until the hanger has tightened around the cable. The free end of the tongue is then passed through the slot I), bent over, as shown in Fig. 1, and any surplus length cut off. The weight of the cable will serve to tighten the grip of the hanger upon it, and as the hanger only bears downward on the span-wire it can be slipped along said wire if it is necessary to shift or straighten out the cable. The length of the tongue will permit the clamping of a cable of considerable diameter, and when used on a smaller cable the cutting off of a portion of the tongue will give the hanger as neat an appearance on the smaller cable as on the larger.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cable-support comprising a body portion having an opening arranged centrally therein and a slot arranged adjacent one end, said body portion being curved on itself adjacent the slot and between the slot and the opening, and a tongue formed integral with and projecting from the body portion and adapted to pass through the said opening and slot, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a device of the kind described, the combination with a cable and a span-wire, of a hanger adapted to engage the said cable and span-wire, said hanger comprising a body portion having an opening arranged centrally therein and a slot near one end thereof, the said body portion having an outwardly-curved portion engaging the span-wire and a tongue projecting from the body portion, the said tongue encircling the cable and projecting through the said opening and slot and being bent upon itself at its extreme outer end after passing through the slot.

FRANK E. WEY.

Witnesses:

C. D. WASEMAN, GEO. H. WEY. 

